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May 2018

May 18, 2018

Christians, Let Us Type One Another

I have just finished the Netflix anime series Violet Evergarden, which looks at the life of...

May 11, 2018

Mourning and Weeping in this Vale of Facts

Last Sunday, the Archdiocese of Sydney celebrated the bicentennial of the preservation of the blessed...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Surprise: an Anthropology

As a creature of habit, I do not like surprises. I like the routine and...

April 20, 2018

Awaiting God’s Fingerprints

Dr Anne Carpenter, an assistant professor of Theology at St. Mary's College and a fellow...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Adam & His Passion

We are now entering the Triduum, to celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ. ...celebrate… How...

February 2018

February 01, 2018

Then When Your Dreams Come True…the Trauma

The old cliche goes that the other most terrible thing in the world is getting...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Dumping Christ for the ‘Crisis’

Crises are useful gimmicks, whether it is economic meltdowns, climate change, immigration, cabinet reshuffles, sex...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Don’t Be Blind to the Paradoxes of Faith

In living out the Christian life, there will certainly come a time when giving...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Bodies Between Heaven & Earth

I have just started trawling through some old essays for tips for a potential project...

September 2017

September 08, 2017

After Resurrection, the Holes…

I remember a line used by my catechism teachers when I was a kid that...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Reflections of a Saint of Nagasaki

Who is Servant of God Takashi Nagai?

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Emmanuel Mounier: On Bodies & the Abstracting Power of Machines

In a tutorial in political philosophy class at Campion College Australia last week, students were...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Ratzinger and Liturgy: The Cosmos and Facing East

On this day, Pope Benedict XVI returns to his status as Joseph Ratzinger, only with...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

The Theological Importance of Humour

One problem many Christians face is being too serious. When battling the powers and principalities...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Cyberculture and Dreamworld: A view from Opus Dei?

The all-pervasive push to have everything online, whether it be books, files or selves, bepseaks...

April 20, 2012

Humans, Faith and Attack Drones

Glenn Greenwald of Salon wrote a piece concerning the issue of the increasing trend of...

April 03, 2012

The Abolition of Man According to Henri de Lubac

In The Drama of Atheist Humanism, the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac remarked that It...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

The Annunciation: A View from Bernard of Clairvaux

This week marked the feast of the Annunciation, the feast whereby the Incarnation was made...

March 16, 2012

Saving Souls Through the Flesh?

The political philosopher Eric Voegelin long argued that Modernity was marked by an undercurrent of...

March 12, 2012

A Response to Newt Gingrich from the Front Porch: A Biography of Saul Alinsky

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made a remark as part of his campaign that "the...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Benedict XVI on the Indispensability of Monasteries

The Vatican Information Service reported that, at a 9th October 2011 visit to the Carthusian...

February 14, 2012

What is a Conservative? A View from the Front Porch

Susannah Black, who blogs at Radio Free Thulcandra, recently wrote an interesting piece in the...

February 03, 2012

What is a Christian Revolution?

In the Old Testament, the prophecies in the Book of Daniel speak of a time...

January 2012

January 03, 2012

Sayings of the Saints: Basil of Caesarea

New Year's Day in the Eastern Liturgical Calendar is the Feast of Ss. Basil of...

December 2011

December 24, 2011

Christmas Sermon of St. John Chrysostom

I behold a new and wondrous mystery! My ears resound to the Shepherd's song, piping...

December 20, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Teresa of Avila

In the face of those who equate a dourness with holiness, and the obsession with...

December 13, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Ambrose of Milan

In the 4th century, the Arians proved to be not only a highly influential heresy,...

November 2011

November 15, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Syncletica of Alexandria

Amma Syncletica said: There is a grief that is useful, and there is a...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

On being Progressive or Conservative – and Why it Sucks

GK Chesterton once noted in 1924 on the growing convergence of all political opinion into...

September 18, 2011

St. John Chrysostom on Drinking

Long before Chesterton sung the praises of drinking, St. John Chrysostom, a Father of the...